Succeed in your course and prepare to enter the nursing profession with this easy to read and highly practical text. This Eighth Edition of Leddy & Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The authors cover professional nursing roles and client care issues, stimulate you to learn more about presented content, and present strategies that will help you deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice.

The following text features help enhance learning:

* Clinical, real-life scenarios begin and end each chapter to bring the content to life.

*Hood's Professional Nurse Contributions Model combines the cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of professional practice.

Succeed in your course and prepare to enter the nursing profession with this easy to read and highly practical text. This Eighth Edition of Leddy & Pepper's Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The authors cover professional nursing roles and client care issues, stimulate you to learn more about presented content, and present strategies that will help you deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice.

The following text features help enhance learning:

* Clinical, real-life scenarios begin and end each chapter to bring the content to life.

*Hood's Professional Nurse Contributions Model combines the cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of professional practice.